Born in Mathur Village (Dist: Palghat) in 1924, he was named Sekharan by his parents. He joined the Ashram of Swami Sivananda on the 27th of November, 1954 and was ordained as a Brahmachari in the next year itself. On the sacred day of Maha-sivaratri in 1958, he took Sannyasa and was given the name of Swami Krishnananda. Authority in all the aspects of the yoga, he had a natural inclination towards Hatha Yoga which he learned with great zeal and soon became an adept in that, and he became the Hatha Yoga teacher of the Ashram when Swami Vishnudevananda went to the West deputed by Sri Gurudev. In addition, he has a special gift in cooking, due to which Sri Gurudev engaged him in his service after the retirement of Swami Govindananda due to old age, in 1959. He served Sri Gurudev heart and soul, and he was so trustworthy that the Master took him in his personal service during his last days. Because of his services to Sri Gurudev in his Kutia, he slowly began to be known as Swami Krishna (Kutia), to distinguish him from other Swamis of the same name.In 1996, in Hrishikesh, India, His Divine Grace, personally trains Swami Ramakrishnananda in Hatha Yoga and it instructs him in complicated aspects of the Sanatana Dharma.
Swami Krishnananda left his body, and entered Maha-Samadhi on the 20th of September, 1999, leaving and eternal inerasable footprint of love and gratitude on Gurudev's heart.

 

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